Category: Life
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2017 in Review
For a long time, I’ve had an annual tradition on this blog of posting goals for the new year, and at the end of the year, I’d review what I got done and set new goals. But last year I found myself wondering if I’d even be designing by the end of the year, so…
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Seamless Set-in Sleeve KAL 2018
Is it too soon to start talking about our next KAL? I don’t think so! This year the Selfish Sweater KAL is getting a rebrand and will be now known as the Seamless Set-in Sleeve KAL. There are three big reasons for this. First, doing something nice for yourself like knitting a sweater shouldn’t be…
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My Knitting Pattern Design Career Evolution
This month was my five-year college reunion, which is a little hard to wrap my brain around. It somehow feels both like more and less time has passed since then. This blog became much less personal after I graduated college for a number of good reasons, but lately I’ve been thinking of where I’m at…
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How to Stretch Your Style Comfort Zone
Every so often I get comments saying, “I wish I could wear ___.” Sometime it’s lipstick. Sometimes it’s dresses. Sometimes it’s bright colors. On one hand I feel like if you want to wear something, wear it! On the other hand I know that it can be hard to make the leap from admiring something…
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We’re Better Together
I had a blog post about my recent personal-knitting slump lined up, but once again this year, I’m finding it difficult to write about crafts as if nothing else is going on. I can’t just chat about knitting like everything is normal because everything is not normal. My country elected an openly-bigoted man with no…